LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists warned on Wednesday of a potential wave of coronavirus-related brain damage as new evidence suggested COVID-19 can lead to severe neurological complications, including inflammation, psychosis and delirium. A study by researchers a... More »
(Reuters Health) – Severely injured patients are more likely to have complications or die if they have a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors like high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, a recent study suggests. This collection of health problems, called ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Healthy progress has been made in reducing smoking and tobacco use, but governments need to do more to help the world’s 1.1 billion smokers quit, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Tobacco use has also declined proportionately in ... More »
(Reuters Health) – Smokers who have a stroke are much more likely to have another one if they don’t quit or at least cut back, a Chinese study suggests. Smoking has long been linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and serious cardiac events like... More »
(Reuters Health) – People who suffer from conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, a Swedish study suggests, and the risk may be greatest in the months right after stress disorders are diagnose... More »
(Reuters Health) – After a raft of studies reassuring consumers that eggs are OK to eat, a new report associates an increasing risk of heart disease with the increasing consumption of eggs. The report, combining data from six earlier studies, found a 6 percent... More »
(Reuters Health) – Patients who need blockages cleared in their carotid arteries to reduce the risk of stroke may want to seek hospitals and doctors who do a lot of these procedures, a new research review suggests. These delicate procedures on a major artery c... More »
(Reuters Health) – Kids living with type 1 diabetes are no different from their peers in their reading and math test scores, a Danish study suggests. The less common form of diabetes, known as type 1, develops in childhood or young adulthood when the pancreas ... More »
(Reuters Health) – Hormones given to people to align their sex with their gender pose a significant risk of serious blood clots and stroke among transgender women, one of the largest studies of transgender patients has concluded. The risk of a dangerous type o... More »
(Reuters Health) – Even light drinkers who enjoy a single beer or glass of wine every night may still be more likely to die prematurely than people who drink less, a recent study suggests. Compared to people who drink less than 100 grams of pure alcohol a week... More »
(Reuters Health) – Face masks available to consumers in China for protection against air pollution vary widely in their real-world performance, suggests a recent study. Although a mask may filter tiny particles as advertised, face size and shape as well as mov... More »
(Reuters Health) – Eating super-hot chili peppers can have painful effects that extend beyond a blazing mouth, doctors warn. After downing a “Carolina Reaper,” billed as the world’s hottest chili pepper at the time, a 34-year-old man developed intense head and... More »
(Reuters Health) – Adult survivors of childhood cancer have a greater risk of heart disease and develop risk factors like high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol earlier in life compared to the general population, a German study suggests. Researchers stud... More »
(Reuters Health) – People living in the U.S. but born elsewhere may have lower risk for heart disease and stroke than their native-born neighbors, suggests a new study. Foreign-born residents had a range of risks, however. Women from Europe and men from Africa... More »
Vials of MPC-150-IM, Mesoblast’s stem cell product, are seen in this undated handout photo received December 14, 2017. Mesoblast/Handout via REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) – The early hope that stem cell therapy would make the paralyzed walk, the blind see and cur... More »
Tighter blood pressure guidelines from U.S. heart organizations mean millions more people need to make lifestyle changes, or start taking medication, in order to avoid cardiovascular problems. More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Hailing from the so-called stroke belt, a band of southern U.S. states with high stroke mortality rates, is associ More »
By Will Boggs MD(Reuters Health) – Meeting some or all of the American Heart Association’s seven ideal cardiovascular health goals is associated with More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Black and Hispanic patients with neurologic disorders are less likely to see brain specialists than white people w More »
FILE PHOTO: Tesla Chief Executive, Elon Musk enters the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., January 6, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk said his latest company Neuralink Corp is ... More »
Four naked mole-rats are seen in a University of Illinois at Chicago laboratory in an undated photo released April 20, 2017. Courtesy of Thomas Park/UIC/Handout via REUTERS They are homely, buck-toothed, pink, nearly hairless and just plain weird, but one of t... More »
Gridlock traffic is pictured on highway 395 as people evacuate Washington after an earthquake August 23, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Reed By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – People who live near sources of heavy traffic exhaust may be at higher risk of heart disease be... More »
By Will Boggs MD(Reuters Health) – – Being physically inactive raises the risk of losing the ability to perform activities of daily living – both bef More »
By Gene Emery(Reuters Health) – – For overweight people with heart disease, trying and failing to lose weight may be more dangerous than not losing w More »
By Gene Emery(Reuters Health) – – Long-term follow-up of patients in a 2014 study confirms that stroke patients recover better if doctors physically More »
A customer smokes a cigarette in a cafe in Prague, Czech Republic, May 25, 2016. REUTERS/David W Cerny/File Photo A global tobacco treaty put in place in 2005 has helped reduce smoking rates by 2.5 percent worldwide in 10 years, researchers said on Tuesday, bu... More »
By Carolyn Crist(Reuters Health) – Even months after a stroke, survivors can make major strides in communication and quality of life with intensive s More »
By Kathryn Doyle(Reuters Health) – Erectile dysfunction is more common in men with gum disease, according to a new review of existing studies. More »
By Madeline KennedyReuters – The increased risk of stroke that comes with smoking may extend to nonsmokers who live in the same household and breathe More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – The number of U.S. diabetics with healthy blood sugar levels has declined in recent years, a study suggests. More »
By Andrew M. Seaman(Reuters Health) – Common blood pressure medications may increase the risk for severe mood disorder episodes, a new study suggest More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Stroke survivors may spend more time at home – as opposed to a nursing home or a hospital – if they were treated a More »
(Reuters Health) – On the question of whether the population would benefit if people cut back on salt, researchers fall into two camps, according to a new report. While most studies have concluded that cutting salt would have benefits, about a third do not agr... More »
